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President's Message The name ‘Horizon’ is based on the Greek verb ‘Orizo, which meant ‘to appoint’ and is found in a very moving passage in the opening passage of St. Paul’s Letter to the Church at Rome (1:4): “…appointed to be Son of God with power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord…” The English word ‘horizon’ is also derived from the Greek verb ‘Orizo (by another route) and it provides a word play whereby we may understand that what Paul was saying is that God, through the resurrection, ‘horizoned’ Christ on our lives, on the horizon of each of our lives, and it is up to us what we do with that divine act in our lives. Christ, by this act of God, is on our horizon, and all it takes is for us to recognize that that is the case and to be grateful for the gift it is in our lives. By coming to study at Horizon you have decided to work with that gift and to try to understand what it means for you individually and for church and society at large. I pray for each of you all the power God can give you to make the most of what is offered you here and to make the most of your lives from this point forward in your ministry. Yours most sincerely,
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It gives me great pleasure to welcome you, the first class of students
to Horizon Theological Institute. Horizon is a new and exciting venture
in Los Angeles in the education of international students into the
grand traditions of Christianity. You will embark on studies in Enlightenment
methods of understanding the formation and transmission of the Bible,
the founding and growth of the Early Church, the spread of Christianity
through out the world, the development of its theologies, its encounter
with Islam and the Renaissance and its renewal in the Reformation.
It will be an exciting adventure for you, and we here at Horizon
stand ready to assist all we can to understand the broader context
of the kind of Christianity you learned at home and at your church,
within the kinds of Christianity in the broader world around you.